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去年归国的徐梦迪,成了清华姚班班主任

量子位 Embodied AI 听雨 2026-08-29
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TL;DR - Robotics researcher Mengdi Xu, who returned from Stanford to Tsinghua University in 2025, has become a faculty adviser for the elite Yao Class. Her work argues that general-purpose robots need rapid adaptation, reusable skills, and reliable instruction-following—not scaling alone.

  • Xu’s CMU award-winning dissertation explored few-shot task adaptation, transferable robot skills, and using LLM knowledge for physical problem-solving.
  • Prompting Decision Transformer adapts policies to unseen tasks from short demonstration trajectories without additional parameter fine-tuning.
  • RoboTool analyzes physical constraints, selects tools, plans actions, and generates executable code, enabling robots to devise unconventional solutions.
  • Her Tsinghua research targets robots that are scalable, adaptable, and reliable, spanning robot learning, human-robot interaction, and AI safety.

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